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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1857
Page
2
Kr Witmet addressed citizens in the public square on Wednesday during the busy season. Attendees included many substantial county residents and families. The speech was praised for candor and honesty and may rally thinking men to his cause against the party line.
The letter urges Adams County voters to back reform in national and state policy, citing past frauds and treachery in Philadelphia and urging support for Judge Wilmer and anti corruption measures. It calls for immediate statewide tax cuts and debt reduction, and warns against party machinery campaigns. A county convention supports a candidate seen as honest and capable.
The correspondence recounts Gen Scott denying Trist’s alleged ten thousand dollar payment to Santa Anna, while Gen Pillow’s accusations are dismissed as unlikely. Separate dispatches describe Russia replacing German with English in Trzansk public schools, citing broader trade ties with the United States and a growing Siberian foreign policy.
Advices from Muvana describe a wargo of Africans landed at the Penta Castle on the 18th, packed into forty volumes and driven to plantations. The American bark Mazeppa captured as a slave ship by a Spanish cruiser. Hundreds of new slaves and Chinese free colonists aboard, with many dying or lashed on sugar estates. A salt rock discovery near Saline Creek in Perry county predicted to affect prices, while a Chicago landlord cuts rents by twenty percent to attract tenants. A Wisconsin whiskey case questions legality and distribution.
A county political notice praising Union party candidates for Governor Assembly Sheriff Prothonotary Treasurer and various county offices. It defends integrity and competence, highlights Sampson Mios SEGWAN and other nominees, and urges an early vote on the 13th. It notes a candidate decline and asserts a pro protectionist stance against cheap foreign labor.
The Hanover Spectator reprints a litellous piece from H. Bu cher Sironpe and defends its actions as a duty to publish while acknowledging errors. It apologies for an article about Mr Tarner editor of Adams Sentinel, notes publication without consent, and mentions legal steps against the publisher and reactions from local papers and figures.
The article reports a widespread suspension of specie payments beginning in Philadelphia and spreading to Pennsylvania banks and other states. The Governor calls an extra session at Harrisburg to address the crisis. the Bank of Gettysburg joins the pause to prevent losses, while Maryland and Southern banks suspend and New York, Boston, and Norfolk resist. Coin, bullion movements, and a Pennsylvania debt reduction are noted amid a general money-market tightness and ongoing Treasury efforts.
A property sale notice from Merredure Diet appoints purchaser Daniel Maving as the buyer. The document outlines seizure and public sale actions with military and defense references and lists involved parties and combat units in a historic regional context.
The Reading Railroad cuts about 125 workers in one city workshop and suspends 125 more as demand slows. Similar discharges spread along the line, with an estimated three hundred unemployed in the Reading area, while other regions report temporary curtailments and a general hope that the panic will fade.
The notes report Jamison and other mills halting production on Saturday, about 350 workers laid off, with estimates of 600 to 700 affected. The Montgomery County Bank suspended specie payments, while some mills hope to resume in weeks, though more closures seem possible.
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